CiteScore:
5.07ℹCiteScore:2018: 5.070CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor:
2.921ℹImpact Factor:2018: 2.921The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

5-Year Impact Factor:
3.256ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2018: 3.256To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2018 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
2.837ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2018: 2.837SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
0.615ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2018: 0.615SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

Author StatsℹAuthor Stats:Publishing your article with us has many benefits, such as having access to a personal dashboard: citation and usage data on your publications in one place. This free service is available to anyone who has published and whose publication is in Scopus.

Guest Editor Instructions for Special Sections

Outlined below, please find the process for managing and publishing special sections in Information and Software Technology. Defining a timeline for the special section and following the instructions contained in this document are important steps for a successful special section. Please follow all instructions and the timeline carefully and get in touch with me if you have any questions.

This is the anticipated process and timeline, and the guest editors are expected to adhere to them (timeline is important, see below):

Register Guest Editors accounts in EVISE

How to invite authors of selected papers

Authors of selected papers should be invited via e-mail (outside of EVISE) and should be asked to register in the IST EVISE site https://www.evise.com/profile/#/INFSOF/login (if they are not yet registered). Once they have registered, please inform the Special Content Editor with the contact information for contact author for each paper.

Official invitation of authors of selected papers

Set deadline for submission of extended papers (done when creating the special section in EVISE)

Paper handling

Once the paper is submitted through EVISE (https://www.evise.com/profile/#/INFSOF/login) the papers will be assigned to the Guest Editor(s) (new) account. Once a paper is assigned to the Guest Editors, they will get a notification e-mail. Thus, in order to avoid delays in handling papers it is important that Guest Editors set an automatic forward from the e-mail specifically created for the special section to their "normal" e-mail accounts, which they are expected to check more regularly.

Review process

TIMELINE

The guest editor should commit to the following timeline:

Item 1 above: Register Guest Editors accounts in EVISE maximum two weeks from the end of the conference/workshop

Items 2 and 3 (authors invitations) maximum three weeks from the end of the conference/workshop

Item 4 (set deadline for submission of extended papers) maximum one week after receiving confirmation from the invited authors. Our recommendation would be to set a deadline of 3 months for submitting the extended papers.

Items 5 and 6 (paper handling and review process) Guest Editors should suggest to the Special Content Editor at least two reviewers to invite within one week from the moment a paper is assigned to a Guest Editor. It is good to start planning for reviewers as soon as the authors accept the invitation to submit an extended version of their paper.

Author revisions Authors will get two months to revise their papers after review (if they are asked to revise the paper).

Guest editors must take some action (e.g. further review, reject, accept) on re-submitted papers within one week from the assignment of a re-submitted paper.

Steps e) and f) are repeated until rejection or acceptance of a paper. The time for revision may be adjusted depending on the type of changes to be made to the article.

For more information about Special Sections or Special Issues or to make a proposal, please contact the Special Content Editor, Jeffrey Carver (carver@cs.ua.edu).